This Black History Month WoWs’ Co-directors Madeline Heneghan and Mike Morris, and Creative Heritage Manager Janaya Pickett, have been invited to deliver The National Archives impact seminar and to present WoW’s unique model of working with archives that gives community participants the chance to develop archiving skills, as well as inspire creative work based on the hidden histories that they uncover.
The National Archives runs impact seminars to share best practice and celebrate work across the archive sector. Last year WoW’s Dorothy Kuya archive project was featured in The National Archives annual publication ‘A Year in Archives,’ discussing our innovative Creative Heritage approach to working with local, diverse communities to help list, catalogue, interpret and reclaim their own histories. WoW’s unique approach to heritage encourages collaboration between a diverse group of project participants including professional archivists, academics, writers, community activists, volunteers and the public. They have applied their Creative Heritage model to a range of archives that further understanding of the challenges facing black communities and they are; The Great War to Race Riots, Liverpool 8 Law Centre, Liverpool Anti Racist Community Arts Association (LARCAA), and the Dorothy Kuya Archive.
Who Should Attend:
This event will be of interest to community organisations and individuals collecting archives, archivists and curators and those open to exploring partnership working and working creatively with archives.